NEFF oven screw holes corroded

[Giblets46]

So just done my annual oven clean on a NEFF U12M42N0GB, this time I decided to remove the plate that covers the fan and element at the back too. I noted there were only 3 screws (instead of 4) and one was fairly lose, but didn’t think anything of it.

Anyway, went to put the plate back on and only 1 screw got any purchase. In the back of the oven (not the plate), the others look like the the metal round the hole has corroded (the paint/enamel round the holes had come away around 5-10mm from the holes), and one hole was far larger than the screw.

The plate is just about staying in place, but anyone recommend a way of getting it to stay on with screws?! ( possibly just replace with wider screws is the only thought, not sure if I will need to drill the plate and if that will have a negative effect on the plate.

 

[jj4091]

Either larger stainless steel self tapping screws or if your holes are near the edge of the aperture then something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26380711...MIlYic1avv8gIVgrbtCh1yvwdREAQYBSABEgJG9PD_BwE

 

[Giblets46]

Thanks, i did think of those, but from the position it’ll have to be the self taps!

 

[opps]

My mum's stupidly expensive Siemens built in combi/microwave oven recently started to rust. The engineer pointed out that the bottom of the kitchen unit should have had a vent fitted in the plinth.

At first I thought he was trying to pass the buck. I then looked at the installation manual, they show air flow coming up from the bottom and then blowing through the vent at the top of the oven.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to go off topic, your Neff recommends a vent at the top. The air enters via the front of the oven and then goes out through the top of the housing. If you don't have a vent at the top, it might be the case that you will have a rust issue in the future.

My mum's oven will cost £1700 to replace after 10 years of light use because the kitchen fitters could not be bothered to read the instructions. At home we have a Neff steam oven that is dripping with water after use, this time because the guy from Wren didn't RTMF.